156 | PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
f Srecres. 1. €. bullatus. No where to be met with in 
North America. 2. scandens. Ons. Dioicous; racemes ter- 
minal; pedicells circularly articulated. Male flowers 
in a compound raceme, the pedicels mestly 3-flowered; 
ealix shortly companulate; stamina alternating with the 
petals. (Flowers odorous.) Female raceme simple, pedi- 
cells bracteate, bractes setaceous, minute; flowers lar- 
ger, turbinate-campanulate, with 5 very short infertile 
stamina seated around the glandulous disk; style about 
the length of the calix, thick, cylindric and perforate; 
stigmas 3, reniforr.; capsule roundish-obovate, slightly 
marked with 3, 4, or 5 furrows, with the same variable 
number of valves; valves semiseptiferous in the middle, 
_—- Q-seeded, septum not continued to the centre; seeds aril- 
dare, attached tothe base of the capsule; arillus pulpy, 3- 
sided, produced at the base, open at the top, entire, con- 
nivent over the seed, when mature scarlet, seeds often all 
_ abortive but one. Leaves alternate, stipules 3 to 5-cleft, 
minute, setaceous. This species is also indigenous to 
Japan, according to Thunberg. 
Of this genus there are 6 species in Chili and Peru, 17 
in Africa, chiefly at the Cape of Good Hope, 4 in Japan, 
2 in Arabia Felix, 1 in the Canary islands, and another in 
the Marquis islands of the Pacific ocean. 
tit Flowers incomplete. 
232. HAMILYONIA, Willd. (Oil-nut.)_ 
_ Divicous.—Hermarn. Calix turbinate-cam- 
_ panulate, 5-cleft. Corolla 0? Germ immersed in 
_ the 5-toothed glandulous disk. Style 1; stigma- 
fa 2 or 3, sublentiform. Drupe, pyriform, 1- 
seeded, inclosed in the adhering base of the ca- 
lix, Maxx flower nearly similar to the herma- 
A shrub with the habit of Celastrns, to which it is inti- 
allied. Leaves alternate entire, stipules none? ra- 
nal, flowers apetalous? 
2 10 Sines tele te ibescent — 
side The af leaves 
: within the bud appear silky. Pedicells circularly articule- a 
